up the tower · the lamp is lit
behind the Events door at Cavendish Coworking · a lighthouse keeper’s watch room
The Events Room
The steady pulse beneath everything we do.
Our recurring events are the heartbeat of Stimpunks: weekly, consistent, and always here.
HOW LOUD DO YOU WANT IT?
Starts wherever your device says. Nothing moves, flashes, or plays until you say so.
The light list
A lighthouse publishes its character, how often it shows and when, so that anybody out there can count on it without having to ask. These are ours, in our events page’s own words, and the hour on your own clock is underneath each one.
The radical act of showing up for each other.
Saturdays, 10AM Central
Bring Your Muchness Down the Rabbit Hole
Thursdays, 7PM Central
Expert lecturers. Community wisdom. Zero hierarchy.
Sundays, 10 AM Central
Drop in. Space out. Belong here.
Weekdays, 9AM Central — and spontaneously whenever someone feels like gathering
The screen on the wall
Something to watch together, when the room wants one. The screen on the wall starts on Campfire Learn Together, the playlist we keep for our Sunday campfires with the newest at the top, so it opens on this week’s video. Infodumplings has a shelf of its own on the rack, every video those evenings have featured. Each video on the rack says how long it runs, and each cam that it runs until you close it: play one here, or put it on the screen on the wall, and each is yours, at your own pace. Somebody signed on to the CB can host whatever is on their screen from the radio, under Host this film, and anybody else on the CB can follow along or catch up with them; a moderator can put any YouTube video up on this screen from the radio, under Screen a video, and whoever follows them gets its play button here, waiting for their own press. In the call, anybody can put a YouTube video on for everybody from the call’s own menu, under Share video, and then whoever shares it plays and pauses it for everybody.
Infodumplings
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Infodumplings
Stimpunks Foundation, on YouTube
Every video our Infodumplings evenings have featured, newest at the top, so it opens on the latest.
On the rack: Schitt’s Creek
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Schitt's Creek Top 10 Funniest Scenes
CBC, on YouTube
Ten scenes from the show, chosen by CBC and put up for its tenth anniversary.
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Alexis & David's Friendship Timeline - Schitt's Creek
Schitt's Creek, on YouTube
Alexis and David, from estranged siblings to friends, cut together in the order it happened.
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Schitt's Creek Funniest Scenes According to Fans
CBC, on YouTube
Scenes chosen by fans this time, after CBC asked under its own ten which ones it had missed.
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The Rise of Rose Apothecary (Timeline) - Schitt’s Creek
Schitt's Creek, on YouTube
David turns the town’s general store into Rose Apothecary, with help from Patrick and Alexis, cut together in the order it happened.
The cams: the waterholes, the otters and the jellies
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Live stream in the Namib Desert
NamibiaCam, on YouTube
Desert, a pan of water, and long stretches of nothing at all. Oryx, springbok, jackals, and at night whatever the infrared finds.
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Okaukuejo waterhole, Etosha National Park
NamibiaCam, on YouTube
The floodlit waterhole at Okaukuejo. Elephant and rhino come in after dark and the light stays on all night, which makes this the cam to have up at three in the morning.
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Sea Otter Cam
Vancouver Aquarium, on YouTube
Sea otters in the water, being extremely busy about nothing in particular.
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Sea Otter Cam 2
Vancouver Aquarium, on YouTube
The second angle on the same otters, which is a different room to them and therefore a different cam to us.
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Live Sea Otter Cam
Monterey Bay Aquarium, on YouTube
Monterey's otters. Grooming, mostly. An otter spends an enormous amount of its day on its own coat and is not embarrassed about it.
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Live Sea Otter Cam (second view)
Monterey Bay Aquarium, on YouTube
The alternate Monterey feed. This one is often between streams; when it is, you get the last one instead, which is still otters.
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Live sea otter and fur seal cam
Seattle Aquarium, on YouTube
Otters and fur seals sharing a frame. The fur seals are louder about it.
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Live Jelly Cam
Monterey Bay Aquarium, on YouTube
Moon jellies, lit from behind, drifting in a circular tank. The slowest thing in this room and the one most likely to still be on an hour after you meant to close it.
By the lift or up the ladder: the call
There is a lift as well as the ladder, from the Events door all the way up to the lantern, stopping at this room on the way. It is just as much the way up, and nobody asks which one you took.
The call in here is for people signed on to the CB, which is everybody in our community. Anybody can come in and look around; to talk, and to be in the call, you need the CB, and the Community Center says how to get on it. People are most likely to be in here at the times on the list above, and between those times there may be nobody in the call.
You are not signed on to the CB in this browser. Get on the CB at the Community Center, then come back and the way in is here.
A Note on Communication Access. We support multiple modes of participation including text chat, audio, and video — whatever works for your communication needs on a given day. You do not need to speak to belong here.
The call is run by 8x8’s Jitsi as a Service. Your camera and microphone start off, the name you are called by goes to 8x8 inside your pass into the call, and while somebody is in the call we keep their name in it, until they leave. What goes where.
Why a watch room
The light does not hurry and does not skip a night. The keeper’s job is to be there when it is due, and the weight on its chain by the wall is what turns the lens: the steady pulse beneath the light. Nothing in this room moves by itself, at any setting, because it is about a thing you can count on.
Whose words
Every line about when is our events page’s, word for word, read off stimpunks.org/events on 2026-09-25, and tools/make-coworking.py reads that page again every time it builds this room and its door. The hour on your own clock is worked out in your browser.
Old Standard TT is Alexey Kryukov’s and IBM Plex Sans Condensed is Mike Abbink’s with Bold Monday, both under the SIL Open Font License; the room is ours. More in the liner notes.
Job marker — a spare lamp mantle, left by the chart table
You have found a job marker. The Adventurer’s Guild is a shopfront on the street, and it posts jobs that send you round these rooms. Take the code below to its board and that job is done. Nothing here is scored, nothing expires, and one is a perfectly good number of jobs to do.
The job: The light's character
Before the code: On what day of the week is Solidarity Sesh, the first light on the Events Room's light list?
Hint 1
It is the first light on the list.
Hint 2
Read the line with the dot in front of it, under the name.
Last hint
The day after Friday.
Give me the answer
The answer is Saturday. Saturdays, 10AM Central, in our events page's own words, and the room works out the same hour on your own clock underneath. A light's character is published so that anybody can count on it without asking.
Taking the answer is a real way through this, not a lesser one. Nothing is watching and nothing is written down.
Quest code: LIGHTLIST
That is the one.
Saturdays, 10AM Central, in our events page's own words, and the room works out the same hour on your own clock underneath. A light's character is published so that anybody can count on it without asking.
Quest code: LIGHTLIST